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Sorry for the confusion. I was referring to its combat efficiency when employed. ie, at Ligny, or the 1/2 Grenadiers battalion sweeping the Prussians out of Plancenoit.

The Grenadiers a Cheval were I believe very effective at Eylau.

However, you are right about losses. The 1/4 and 2/4 Chasseurs battalions were combined at Waterloo due to the losses at Ligny as an example.

Whilst they were known as ' the Immortals', using them in action soon proved otherwise. However, even with the crippling losses at Waterloo their advance gave the Duke a nervous time with Halketts brigade and Maitlands guards faltering briefly.

So, in summary a most potent force when employed but a finite resource as a result.

Elements from 2nd Brigade Marechal-de-camp Dupeyroux, commence their advance from St Amand towards ligny as the French artillery begins to redeploy through the village.

2nd Brigade De La Jeune Garde, Marechal-de-camp Guye supported by 7th Infantry Division, Lieutenant-general Baron Jean-Baptiste Girard attempt to ‘pin’ the Prussians before Brye. If successful this will allow the Guard advancing from Ligny to envelop their rear and destroy them.

Feldmarschall Blucher is organising the defence of Ligny in person . In his absence Generallieutenant August Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau orders the withdrawal of all Prussian forces west of Ligny in order to prevent their envelopment.

The skies begin to darken to an inky blackness as the storm arrives.

The gunfire is drowned out by thunder and the dark is torn by sheet lightning as the Guard move through a blazing Ligny scenting victory.

The fire is real using my tin foil, balsa wood and barbecue lighter fuel technique. It did go nuclear as flames seem to start 1/72 scale and then get 54mm aspirations plus.

Thankfully the church itself was saved in the nick of time.

The fires in the houses are the brainchild of my wife, ' Der Feldmarschall'. She suggested rechargeable tea lights which I was dubious about. However as always she was right and the result is pleasing when combined with theatrical haze.

HQ also suggested a torch beam to replicate lightning which again when mixed with haze produces a most satisfactory effect.

The normal scenes are again benefiting from the haze replicating the vast quantities of smoke generated by Napoleonic battles.

Theatrical haze poses problems for photography but when the elements coincide, so to speak, the results are most pleasing.

Thank you again and thank you to everyone for their kind comments . They are most appreciated.

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I understood at the moment if you pay that amount you will not get your files back anyhow but maybe that is only for something going on in The Netherlands for the last days.

This is a disaster! It burns my butt stuff like this can happen - essentially holding you for ransom.I haven't used Photobucket but my Picassa account became unwieldly so I've switched to copying images from my (still free) blog with Blogger. If I want to share pictures but don't want them posted on the blog I drop them into an unpublished blog post (called Photo Dump) and copy from there. If you want, you never even have it have a published blog.Just one work around suggestion so you can continue to share your amazing work, although it does mean learning your way around Blogger a bit.